The Port Talbot Steelworks Generating Station Order 2015

Provision of landscaping

6.—(1) No stage of the authorised development may be commenced until a written landscaping scheme for that stage has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority.

(2) The landscaping scheme must be in accordance with the design and access statement and chapter 7 of the environmental statement and must include details of all proposed hard and soft landscaping works, including—

(a) location, number, species, size and planting density of any proposed planting;

(b) cultivation, importing of materials and other operations to ensure plant establishment;

(c) proposed finished ground levels;

(d) hard surfacing materials;

(e) vehicular and pedestrian access, parking and circulation areas;

(f) minor structures, such as furniture, refuse or other storage units, signs and lighting;

(g) proposed and existing functional services above and below ground, including drainage, power and communications cables and pipelines, manholes and supports;

(h) details of existing trees to be retained, with measures for their protection during construction;

(i) retained historic landscape features and proposals for restoration, where relevant; and

(j) implementation timetables for all landscaping works.

(3) All landscaping works must be carried out in accordance with—

(a) the approved landscaping scheme and to a reasonable standard in accordance with the relevant recommendations of appropriate British Standards or other recognised codes of good practice; and

(b) any implementation timetables approved under sub-paragraph (1).

(4) Any tree or shrub planted as part of an approved landscaping scheme that, within a period of 5 years after planting, is removed, dies or becomes, in the opinion of the relevant planning authority, seriously damaged or diseased, must be replaced in the first available planting season with a specimen of the same species and size as that originally planted, unless otherwise approved by the relevant planning authority.